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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Propaganda Against Pakistan’s Nuclear Technology and Power Plants!

Poor girls in a school at Muzaffargarh

Pakistan’s
sub nationalist parties are unable to technically prove that which city would
drown due to Kalabagh Dam or which region will have to face shortage of water.
Younger generation asks that why all those projects are opposed by so called
sub-nationalists that may create opportunities of employment, open new
corridors of economic development and strengthen defense of motherland. Why
sub-nationalists threaten that Pakistan may fall apart if such project of mass
development is completed moreover why International media plays vital role in
fueling such propaganda. The worst damage that Pakistan has to bear due to non
construction of Kalabagh Dam is that India has become capable to destroy
Pakistan’s defense and economy by controlling waters of Pakistani rivers coming
from Indian Held Kashmir. Painful aspect is that all those elements are not
only criminally silent but searching for new horizons for their propaganda and
anti-Pakistan activities in spite of being aware that by controlling water of
Pakistani India has become capable to destroy Pakistan’s agriculture by
stopping the water, causing draught and causing flood on the other hand by
suddenly releasing the stored water into rivers, paralyzing Pakistan moreover
create troubles in the movement of army.

Recent
example is the propaganda launched against the project to construct Nuclear
power plants at different places of Pakistan; all those elements that have been
opposing Kalabagh Dam in the past are now flag bearers in propaganda against
Nuclear Power Plants. The most widely used and cheaper method to general
electricity is through hydal projects so that cheap electricity maybe provided
to the industry. Unfortunately, Pakistan has all the resources and rivers to construct
Hydal projects but these projects cannot be completed due to the hurdles
created by internal elements. Although those elements who oppose Kalabagh dam
are limited in number but due to the financial support and propaganda of
anti-Pakistan foreign powers they seem to be the voice of majority. Local
Pakistanis under the influence of propaganda forget that with the construction
of dams not only abundant electricity and water will be available for
agriculture, industry and household. Water is becoming costly due to increasing
water shortage all over the world. On the other hand this propaganda creates
concerns in the international community and public of those countries puts
adverse effect on those countries that want to invest in any mega project in Pakistan.

Besides
Hydal project it is possible to general electricity through Solar, Wind mills,
natural gas, coal plants, furnace oil or Nuclear technology. We are already
facing shortage of natural gas, use of coal is being avoided due to increasing
pollution, wind mills can be installed in specific regions only, solar panels
require a huge area while the generated electricity is not sufficient to
fulfill the requirements; in such situation it is the nuclear power plants that
may bail out Pakistan from the current energy crises. Use of nuclear technology
for generation of electricity is only possible when a country has expertise in
nuclear technology. By the grace of Allah Pakistan is one of those countries
that have the capability to utilize nuclear technology for generation of
electricity and solid state security system. The security of Pakistani nuclear
installations can be imagined from the fact that in spite of tornado of
terrorism all over the country for last decade by foreign powers, they failed
to find even any trace of Pakistani nuclear installations.

Along
with Karachi and other cities, Muzaffargarh has been also earmarked for
installation of nuclear power plants. Just like Karachi, propaganda and
protests have been started by various NGOs and international media is
publishing special reports including BBC. While UK is the first country that
established Nuclear Power Plant in 1956 near London “Calder Hall”, 8 nuclear
power plants are still functional generation 9000 MW electricity while 7 power
plants have been shut down as they have completed their project life they will
be soon upgraded while project to construct 4 more power plants is already in
the pipeline. www.bbc.com has never dared to
criticize British Civil Nuclear Program or nuclear power projects as it is
doing in Pakistan.

BBCUrdu.com
has recently published a post on its website, “Atomic, Atomic; Save us from
that Monster”. In this post 50 years old Hazara Khan has been portrayed as opponent
of Nuclear power plant at Muzaffargarh. Hazara Khan has been portrayed as
begging that we do not know anything, everywhere atomic atomic is being said,
there explosives will be manufactured which will produce the smoke that will
kill all the people in the vicinity so save us from that. The purpose of this post
is clear from the sentence that people in the vicinity would be killed and
Hazara Khan is protesting against it. In this post on the one hand Hazara Khan
is concerned over the construction of Power plant while on the other hand he is
alleging that landlords of the area are not being paid with the market value of
the land being acquired by govt. thus destroying the source of livelihood of
locals. On the one hand this post is full propaganda against nuclear power
plant while on the other hand issue of acquiring marked land at below market
value has been raised. After reading the post it becomes evident that it has
been written for Pakistanis abroad. On ground we do not see any protests or
restlessness in the public Muzaffargarh besides few protests staged by some
NGOs to please their foreign funders like DFID, USAID etc. If govt. is showing
sluggishness in payment of price of the land to be acquired at market value
then protest is the right of land owners and whole nation would support them
but if the propaganda is aimed at creating hurdles in the way of establishment
of nuclear power plant that it is our duty to oppose such anti-Pakistan
campaigns…